Manuscripts & Organizational Records

Manuscripts,
personal papers, and organizational records document local, state, and
national politics as well as the diversity of community life in the
Sacramento region. Political collections include the papers of
Congressman John E. Moss, author of the Freedom of Information Act;
former Mayors of Sacramento, Phillip Isenberg and Joseph Serna; and
California Senators LeRoy Greene and Albert Rodda. The archive of Wilson
Riles, Sr., Superintendent of Public Schools in California in the 1970s,
and the papers of Judge Alice Lytle, the first African American woman
appointed to the California Superior Court, provide valuable
documentation on African American leadership in reforming the California
state system of education and of the judiciary, particularly as related
to the rights of minorities, women and children.

Manuscript collections include the records of the Sacramento Army Depot,
the Port of Sacramento, the American Lung Association--Emigrant Trails,
and other public and private agencies. Peace and social justice
movements of the 1960s-1990s are represented in records of the
Sacramento Peace Center, Grandmothers for Peace, the Women's
International League for Peace and Social Justice--Auburn Chapter, Peace
Action, and the Friends Committee on Legislation.

The Library continues to
collect primary sources on the history of the Mexican American community
in Sacramento. Manuscripts, newspapers, pamphlets, photographs, posters
and other ephemera document migrant farm labor in California and the
role of the United Farm Workers in protecting the rights of migrant
laborers.